Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new.

When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God desires things to be. Famine, debt, oppression, loneliness, despair, death, slaughter--they are all hell on earth. Jesus' desire for his followers is that they live in such a way that they bring heaven to earth. What's disturbing is when people talk more about hell after this life than they do about Hell here and now. As a Christian, I want to do what I can to resist hell coming to earth.

Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this.

My interest is in what's true, where is the life, where is the heart and what inspires.

We need to return to the simplicity that God is love.

The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.

I thought that Christian was a noun, a person looking for authenticity. I never understood that idea that a band could be Christian or something could be Christian. But it just can be and is.